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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Luck
Perspective
Thing
Good

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I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay
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He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.
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Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.
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After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
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One of my favorites is Time and Again by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.
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Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
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Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.
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You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.
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How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
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Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.
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Trouble is just like love, after all it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
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There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
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That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.
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I'm a really eclectic reader.
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The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.
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